The exhibition
at Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, provides a brief look at the work of
six Czech artists whose generation helped bridge the difficult years that lay
between the liberal art scene of the second half of the 1960s and the thaw that
eventually came about with the gradual implosion of the Czechoslovak Communist
regime in the second half of the 1980s. They are
Jiri
Beranek, Vaclav
Blaha, Jiri
Naceradsky, Vladimir
Novak, Ivan
Ouhel,
and Jiri
Sopko. The show
is supplemented by the work of Pavel
Kraus, a Czech-born artist who lives and works in New York
and Vermont; he is a contemporary of the other participants. This exhibition
features site-specific installations by Jiri
Beranek, Vaclav
Blaha, and Pavel
Kraus.
The exhibition " 6plus1" at the Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA is open July 15th to September 26th 1999.
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